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Kyrgyzstan - Vietnam |
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– The Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), Mexico’s first film school, opens at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City (UNAM). [ADD] |
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Pakistan |
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– Popular actress Mussarat Nazir retires from the screen to emigrate to Canada after marrying a doctor. [ADD] |
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– The government decrees that Pakistani films must account for 85% of screen time in the country’s cinemas. The decree results in a rash of low quality Punjabi films. [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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– Ousmane Sembene’s 18-minute short, Borom Sarret, the first indigenous black African film, is released. [ADD] |
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Somalia |
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- Hajji Cagakombe’s Miyi Iyo Magaalo (The Countryside and the City), a Somali-Italian co-production, is the country’s first full-length feature film. [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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– The passing of the Publications & Entertainments Act results in the creation of the Publications Control Board to maintain standards of decency in films, public entertainments and all publications. [ADD] |
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Spain |
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New censorship guidelines ease the restrictions that have been in place since the civil war. [ADD] |
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– Chinese restaurants close all over the country as staff are hired as extras for Nicholas Ray’s American production 55 Days at Peking. [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Tystnaden (The Silence), the final part of Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy, is released. The previous films are Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly) in 1961, and Nattvardsgästerne (Winter Light) in 1962. Ingrid Thulin, Gunner Lindblum and Jörgen Lindström star. [ADD] |
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– Harry Schein founds the Swedish Film Institute and becomes its first managing director. Its creation brings an end to entertainment tax, which is replaced with a levy of 10% on every cinema ticket. [ADD] |
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Syria |
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– The General Cinema Organisation is formed following the Revolution of March 8th under the Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party. [ADD] |
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– Zaheir Shawa begins work on his second film, Beyond the Frontiers, but is forced to abandon the project in 1965 due to lack of finance. [ADD] |
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Taiwan |
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– The Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) introduces the ‘Health Realism’ melodrama, a genre designed to help build traditional moral values. [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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– The Vietnam Film School is established. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1963 |
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Kyrgyzstan |
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Znoy (Heat) (L. Shepitko) [ADD] |
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Latvia |
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The Coast (Aivars Freimanis) [ADD] |
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The Worker (Uldis Brauns) [ADD] |
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Lithuania |
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Vienos dienos kronika (The Chronicle of a Day) (Vytautas Zalakevicius) [ADD] |
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Poland |
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Jak byc kochana (How to be Loved) (Wojciech Jerzy Has) [ADD] |
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Pasazerka (Passenger) (Andrzej Munk) [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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Sarzan (Momar Thiam) [ADD] |
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Serbia |
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Dani (Aleksander Petrovic) [ADD] |
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Spain |
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El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga) [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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Gamperaliya (The Changing Village) (Lester James Pereis) [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Kvarteret Korpen (Raven’s End) (Bo Widerberg) [ADD] |
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Taiwan |
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Turkmenistan |
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Sostyazaniye (The Competition) (Bulat Mansurov) [ADD] |
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USSR |
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Optimisticheskaya tragediya (Optimistic Tragedy) (Samson Samsonov) [ADD] |
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Ya shagayu po Moskve (Walking the Streets of Moscow) (Georgi Daneliya) [ADD] |
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Vietnam |
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Chi Tu Hao (Sister Tu Hao) [ADD] |
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Khoi Trang (White Smoke) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1963 |
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| USA January - August | ||||
| USA September - December | ||||
